Reading this book will not only confirm your own pilgrimage in prayer but will also allow you to overhear a conversation between two pilgrims: Fr Alexander Ezechukwu, OCD, Prior of the Carmelite Community in Boars Hill, Oxford, and Dr Susan Muto, Executive Director of the Epiphany Institute of Formative Spirituality in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Together, they serve as your guides for these seven essential steps in the life of prayer from Renew to Return. Each step takes you deeper into the heart of what it means to become more intimate with the Guide of all guides, our Lord Jesus Christ, through the power and presence of the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit. Each step also introduces you to scriptural texts on the life of prayer and complementary sayings from a true master of the spiritual life, St John of the Cross (1542-1591).